The CIIS Fellows Program provides funding for a faculty member and from one to three students to pursue research outside the regular semesters and to share an experience of working off-campus in a significantly different cultural setting. The students' research will not be credit-bearing though it may lay the foundation for future academic work and will involve learning essential research skills.
The research project should be designed collaboratively by the faculty member and the student(s). In this the program differs sharply from the University Fellows Program, in which the student initiates, designs and authors a proposal which s/he will pursue under the tutelage of a faculty member during the summer. The CIIS Fellows program envisions collaboration on a research project; however, proposals must allow each student participant scope for individual initiative in project design and in research activity.
Proposals should make clear why the location off-campus is essential to the research. Funding is intended to support the cost of travel to a location off-campus, living expenses for from three-to-six weeks, and modest research costs.
For more information, download the CIIS Fellows information and guidelines sheet .